Archive for the ‘community’ Category
I was invited to expand a previously written post found here about NOMA and it’s importance on the organization’s 40th anniversary. This article was written for the American Planning Association (APA) Planning and the Black Community Division’s (PBCD) Winter newsletter which focused on social equity. You can download the entire newsletter here.
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Tags: african american architect, apa, Architecture, community design, community planning, pbcd, planning and the black community
It’s January; that means that a lot of students who received college acceptance letters are now working on financial aid applications. Several news outlets are covering the topic of low and moderate-income students’ experience getting in to and succeeding in college. I recieved a full scholarship for my undergraduate education. Without that scholarship, I would […]
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Older drivers on our streets
My last few posts have been related to transportation in communities. There seems to be a lot of stories in the news that have me reflecting on this. A recent story on NPR’s Morning Edition reported on care features that make it easier for older people to remain in the drivers seat long into thier […]
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Tags: driving, transportation
An article was recently published in Atlantic Cities showing that over time cyclists and pedestrians spend more at local businesses because they visit the businesses more frequently than drivers. The data and graphs supports effort to make communities more pedestrian and bike friendly. This quote about Portland, Oregon really struck me as I think about […]
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Tags: Atlantic Cities, biking, community design, pedestrians, transportation
Life celebrations
Last week my mom would have turned 62. We are all saddened she couldn’t be here. However, the number of people that reached out to us over the last month was an awesome testimony to her life and the value she gave to so many in her many community circles and the life lessons she […]
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Tags: families
Earlier this summer, The Brookings Institution released a great paper discussing the problem of transit and jobs. Basically, the authors say transit exists where the jobs are but not where people live so people have a hard time actually getting from residential areas to employment centers.
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Tags: community design, suburbs, The Brookings Institution, transit, urban life
minimum wages
You can’t fault business people for making a profit. However if you are a billionaire, how do you get the nerve to tell workers they should work for $2 a day. Apparently in Australia, mining tycoons think their countrymen should be like African workers who are willing to work for $2 a day. Instead of […]
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Tags: community, families, wages
Urban Rest Stop
It is a great thing to see a community come together to support those who can’t do for the themselves. One of the great examples of this is Seattle’s Urban Rest Stop. The idea came about in 1990 after a survey found that Seattle had almost no public rest rooms. The Low Income Housing Institute, […]
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Tags: community, community design, Seattle, urban life, Urban Rest Stop
Seeing ourselves
Paper notes and porcelain dolls | Photo by ♣♦♥♠ I like stories. I like to hear, see, and read how people got to where they are in their lives. Their path is not mine and my path is not theirs but we cross in space and time. A few months ago I visited the Contemporary […]
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Tags: Smithsonian, The Black List, Washington DC
ritual
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. Ken Kesey Metal Snowflake by trec_lit For the first time in several years, I was home for Christmas. With people I have known all my life. All a little older, a little grayer, a little wiser. I was navigating an in between time of being an adult but […]
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Tags: cjm, community, Judaica, san francisco, Stanley Saitowitz
